{"id":84,"date":"2021-04-23T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:19:50","slug":"well-but-i-would-take-up-arms-to-protect-my-female-cop-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/well-but-i-would-take-up-arms-to-protect-my-female-cop-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, but\u2026 I would take up arms to protect my female cop friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent twenty years give or take being a substitute teacher. I got my social studies credential 12 years ago but I&#8217;m a dime a dozen before taking into account that I&#8217;m also white. Being 50+ and white there will never be a full time teaching position for me with those strikes against me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in those twenty years, I have been a kind of go to sub for a high school near me. As a result, and also because I did my student teaching there for my (now nearly-useless) full time credential I have become friends (Facebook and otherwise) with a number of former students. Amongst those are at least three who have chosen to become law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am stating here and now that I would give my life to for those women. They have so much to live for and have chosen a career that the general public shits on. It is thankless and sometimes brutal. I would happily exchange my life for any one of theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent twenty years give or take being a substitute teacher. I got my social studies credential 12 years ago but I&#8217;m a dime a dozen before taking into account that I&#8217;m also white. Being 50+ and white there will never be a full time teaching position for me with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}